The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Regulation 12(2)

SCHEDULE 4WORK INVOLVING PARTICULAR RISKS

This schedule has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

1.  Work which puts workers at risk of burial under earthfalls, engulfment in swampland or falling from a height, where the risk is particularly aggravated by the nature of the work or processes used or by the environment at the place of work or site.

2.  Work which puts workers at risk from chemical or biological substances constituting a particular danger to the health or safety of workers or involving a legal requirement for health monitoring.

3.  Work with ionising radiation requiring the designation of controlled or supervised areas under regulation 16 of the Ionising Radiations Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(1).

4.  Work near high voltage power lines.

5.  Work exposing workers to the risk of drowning.

6.  Work on wells, underground earthworks and tunnels.

7.  Work carried out by divers having a system of air supply.

8.  Work carried out by workers in caissons with a compressed air atmosphere.

9.  Work involving the assembly or dismantling of heavy prefabricated components.